Random, occasionally rambling thoughts with links to interesting, scandalous, or partisan news of the day.

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Dead Heroes
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
  

Living Heroes
We owe the liberty and freedom we take for granted to the enlisted men and women in the armed forces. They sacrifice family, ease, and even life laboring in service to all of us. The least we can do for them is honor their devotion with dignified pay scales, decent education for themselves and their children, and reasonable compensation for service away from their families and death on the battlefield. Flag waving politicians who praise the troops on one hand and cut their pay and benefits with the other should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

Blogs I Read Often
• Talking Points Memo
• Atrios
• FireDogLake
• Brad DeLong
• The Daily Howler
• Daily Kos
• Glenn Greenwald
• MyDD
• The News Blog
• Oliver Willis
• Political Wire
• The Volokh Conspiracy
  

Bush Breaks With 140 Years of History in Plan for Wartime Tax Cut ...when Wilson urged higher taxes in World War I, he stressed the nation's obligation to avoid burdening future generations with the war's cost through excessive borrowing: "The industry of this generation should pay the bills of this generation," he said. Bush seems to be ignoring that lesson.
Whatever ill or good you want to speak of the boomers, let it no be said that we skimped on paying our share of the bill. Our parents, the greatest generation, made out like bandits by never paying a decent payment into social security, but reaping a bountiful harvest. We, on the other hand, are paying for our parents and building up a trust fund for ourselves, but our fearless leader, he of the "no problem" surplus, wants to spend the bounty of the boomers on tax cuts for the rich and stick our children with tax bills so large they will revolt against paying them. Not for me and not in my name, Mr. Bush. Yo can pay as you go; put back the lock box; tax the dead to hell and gone, and slap a buck a gallon tax on gas. Just don't think my kids ought to pay for the tax cut you and Cheney will enjoy. To that, I salute my Navy veteran son who would surely say, "What the fuck's up with that?" I want to turn over to them a country with no deficits so they aren't stuck paying the deficit and the interest on top of social security. If they want to run up their own debts for their own priorities, let them do it. To stick them with ours is the worst example of fiscal duplicity by any President in the history of this nation.
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